Political and Cultural Commentary, mostly on Russia, since 1987

My photo of the crowd outside the courthouse during the resumption of the
trial of the August '91 putschists (Kriuchkov, Yazov, Yanaev, and
Gorbachev's former right-hand man, Anatoly Lukyanov, et al.) in
Moscow, on September 24, 1993. A few hours later, Yeltsin went on TV and
announced his decision to disband the Supreme Soviet, which triggered
another attempt at a coup, concluded with the army tanks firing on the White
House.